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I've looked at a lot of the copy tools available on windows such as RichCopy and RoboCopy but they all seem to use date/time stamp comparisons to determine whether or not do the copy.

What I'm looking for is something that can be executed from the command line and will generate a hash that is used to compare the files in the source and destination to determine whether or not to do the copy.

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Calculating hashes seems to be an incredibly expensive idea, especially when copying over networks. It doesn't come as a surprise that this is a rarely implemented (and probably rarely requested/needed) feature. – Joey Sep 29 '09 at 19:12
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SyncBack SE, since its version V5.5.0.9 (April 2009), has the option to use a hash for file comparison.

New: Option to always calculate hash values for file comparison

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You asked for command line, so I'd recommend

You can use the normal Windows DOS prompt, or get rxvt.

However, if you'd like something GUI you could schedule for backups

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